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Here I show you how to take a classic rock guitar riff with E5 / E5 / D5 / A5 and extend it to several stages of expression and sound. The key for cool stuff in music or any art is different stages of expression of the same simple thing. Here you can download the files associated to this tutorial :

Cool stuff....thanks HP!

That's incredible! It would be interesting to know how many in the community came over from tictoc vs YouTube or other.

Hey Jeff, options are very important in jazz.

Somehow TikTok has a different alogerithm. This video made around 5K views in a few hours on TikTok with 20 followers and now we can compare. On YT around 250 views with 47000 subscribers. Makes sense to upload some more videos on TikTok to bring more people to this website here. :-)

Autumn Leaves is probably one of the most popular jazz standards and it's a must at every cool jazz jamsession. There are many ways to play Autumn Leaves on guitar and also many ways to create a cool improvisation over this great tune. In this tutorial I will show you a very easy approach to play the chords, the melody and to play a very simple but effectiv jazzy improvisation by moving a motiv in a way the melody already works. At the very end of this tutorial I will play a version which shall give you some inspiration. Below you find the chapters of this tutorial. 0:00 Introduction 2:11 Chords 10:22 Melody 18:44 Improvisation 30:23 Inspiration Autumn Leaves.pdf Autumn Leaves.gp autumne leaves.mp3